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Four reports produced by the USAID Sustainable WASH Systems (SWS) Learning Partnership published. Read more...
The government's flagship Climate Resilient Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (CR-WASH) initiative focuses on lowland investments in 'resilient' technologies such as deep boreholes and more resilient piped water infrastructure. These seek to displace emergency humanitarian interventions in drought-... Read more...
The April 2019 quarterly held National Sanitation Marketing Multi-stakeholders Platform Meeting chaired by the Federal Ministry of Health (FMoH) aimed at forwarding solutions for challenges in the implementation of sanitation marketing, mainly financing options for households and sanitation... Read more...
Comparing of country scores after assessments of WASH systems can be both tricky and attractive. Read more...
This paper gives a first insight into the results of the assessments of the WASH systems done in Ethiopia, Ghana and Uganda, using the traffic-light... Read more...
Behaviour change is not sufficient in itself to improve health and livelihoods, nor is construction, improving accountability, training, capacity... Read more...
Those of you who have been paying attention will recall that my first blog-post promised a story about certification for WASH products! At long last, here it is. Read more...
Addressing inequalities by improving access to WASH services for vulnerable groups; introducing social water tariffs for the vulnerable; involving... Read more...
During the Thursday morning monitoring and learning session at IRC's All systems go! participants discussed factors than enable or hamper use of monitoring data in evidence-based decision making. Read more...
WASH businesses that are attempting to enter both water and sanitation markets worldwide are frequently not what you'd call "business as usual". Many of them are social enterprises started by passionate people who put people before profit and exist primarily to meet a specific challenge. Read more...
As a result of the the iWET project, functionality in some districts has risen from 80% to 95%, scheme downtime has been reduced from 30 days to... Read more...
Making a range of good quality household water filters available to customers is an additional service and an intermediate solution until water... Read more...
Since my first post about some first-hand experience of running a WASH business within the Ethiopian business framework I've been wondering how much of the challenges is due to being a foreign business. Maybe the thought occurred to a few readers. Read more...
Ethiopia is currently ranked 161st out of 190 countries for "Ease of Doing Business". My first post is about why that might be the case, and how the recent new government has the potential to have an impact as it seeks to harness the potential of the private sector. Read more...
This paper summarises results of a study about the demand for rural water facility spares, the organisation of supply chains and the O&M systems... Read more...
The paper sets out the processes followed to establish WASH Learning Alliances in Ethiopia, examines some of the associated risks and constraints,... Read more...
This paper summarises the different system strengthening initiatives and makes recommendations for joint learning and collaboration. Read more...